The inside story of Biden's foreign policy team and their struggle to restore America's global
influence in the aftermath of Trump. When Joe Biden assumed the United States presidency he
brought with him a team of all-star talent perhaps the most experienced ensemble of policy
experts in modern U.S. history. Their mission: repair America's damaged reputation abroad and
decide the course of its global future. The challenges and risks could not have been greater.
Around the world adversaries were consolidating power allies were drifting away wars were
raging and climate change was accelerating all while Russia was disrupting democracies and
China was seeking to replace the U.S. as the world's preeminent power. Now for the first time
since World War II the United States risked falling from its unrivaled position. If Biden and
his team failed it would likely mark the end of an American era and the rise of a fractured
and autocratic world order. In The Internationalists acclaimed national security reporter
Alexander Ward takes us behind the scenes to reveal the struggle to enact a coherent and
effective set of policies in a time of global crisis. Against the failure of Afghanistan and
Russia's invasion of Ukraine Biden's all-star team-of-rivals must band together against
incredible odds. Their successes and their failures will decide not just Biden's presidency.
They will decide the very course of America's global future. As The Best and The Brightest
chronicled the smoke-filled rooms of the Kennedy Administration and The Rise of The Vulcans
detailed the inner workings of George Bush's war machine The Internationalists takes readers
behind the scenes as Joe Biden and his cabinet embark on some of the most ambitious foreign
policy initiatives of any president since Richard M. Nixon. Thanks to rigorous reporting and
sources in the rooms where it happened Ward delivers the first draft of history the first
definitive unvarnished account of the Biden Doctrine from the Fall of Kabul to the Rise of
Kiev--
